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ReadAir is an OSX Themed Desktop Client for Mac or Windows. Built with Adobe Air. ReadAir accesses your Google Reader account and runs on your desktop as a web-app. This is just one of the many examples of the power Adobe Air has giving developers, Pownce is another great example.

Here is a quick comparison between Wikipedia, Powerset & Google of the search term “Who is the princess of Wales?” Lets take a quick look;
Wikipedia Results

Wikipedia clearly shows that Camilla is the current princess.
Google’s Results

Here is a little known hack you can easily use to sort Google search results by time:

Search for anything as usual from http://www.google.com
On the results page add the following to the end of the URL in the address bar: &as_qdr=d
Have fun!

Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Last night they launched Google App Engine which is an ambitious new project that offers a full-stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform. It consists of Python application servers, BigTable database access (anticipated here and here) and GFS data store services.
TechCrunch has a [...]

Google’s Sergei Brin and Steve Horowitz show off multiple prototypes of the Android platform, one of which has a Palm smartphone form factor and one that has a higher-end, HTC Windows Mobile form factor.
Sergei talks about how Google has set aside $10,000,000 to reward innovative mobile Android application developers. The resources needed to begin developing [...]

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
Google Browser Sync is completely automated. The settings you select at startup are [...]

Although it’s still considered a work in progress, Google’s online spreadsheet will offer consumers and businesses a free alternative to Microsoft’s Excel application. Google’s spreadsheet isn’t as sophisticated as Excel. For instance, the Google spreadsheet won’t create charts or provide a menu of controls that can be summoned by clicking on a computer mouse’s right-hand [...]